Contemplating the drive home for the holidays and somehow now my daily drive doesn't seem so bad. Usually I have company going downstate, but I probably won't this time. A family emergency has made it so that my house partner will be heading down tonight or tomorrow morning, and I won't follow until sometime on Friday. No help for it - I can't get out of work due to commitments at the office, and he must get down there as soon as he can. All I can do is try to make it as stress-free for him as possible. Kind of hard to do that when I'll be dreading the drive down myself.
Since my move Up North, I've become a lousy driver in busy traffic. I'm one of those 'white knucklers' that you pass and laugh at, like the person on the outside ring of the skating rink, hugging the wall and afraid to get into the mainstream. I know that by the end of the weekend I'll be back to my lane changing, swearing, charging downstate driver self, but am secure in the knowledge that it won't take too long to revert back to my Up North casual commuter stance.
Until that time, if you happen to look over and see someone who seems to be having a rough time of it, give them a break and back off, keep your brights down, and for Pete's sake, be a polite driver out there.
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